Democratic Wiretaps: Whatever It Takes

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July 10, 2008

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War On Terror: After keeping the homeland vulnerable for months, the Democratic Congress finally restored surveillance powers against terrorists. The supposedly "failed" Bush presidency wins big again.

The extraordinary nature of the White House victory this week in passing the overhaul of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is unlikely to be fully appreciated this election year.

Some forget that when the National Security Agency's terrorist surveillance program was revealed in late 2005 by The New York Times, it was seen as yet another death knell for George W. Bush.

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Are Democratic Wiretaps on U.S. soil, legal, without a court order, but not those of Republicans? This was the lead question in a Washington Times editorial when this controversy first arose.

The article goes on to point out that "Every president, Democrat or Republican, has exercised this authority since the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, (FISA), became law in October 1978. But it appears to be deemed problematical only for President Bush."

Those wiretaps are said to have caught Iyman Faris, a naturalized U.S. citizen who wanted to bomb the Brooklyn Bridge".

Jimmy Carter, using Democratic-Wiretaps, without court order, waited just seven months after the signing of FISA, to issue the order to use it.

Bill Clinton then used "warrantless searches" and his Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick said" that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes".

Gorelick goes on to say "The Department of Justice believes -- and the case law supports -- that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes and that the president may, as he has done, delegate this authority to the attorney general."

Still party leaders go on daily with their gutter politics.

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid even bragged several months back, that he had blocked the latest attempt to improve the Patriot Act.Will Democrats ever get it?

When will the safety of Americans replace the lust to regain the power they once had.

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